Environment Group

Texas A&M Transportation Institute
1111 RELLIS Parkway
Room 3432
Bryan, TX 77807
(979) 393-0688
[email protected]

Dr. Tara Ramani is an Associate Agency Director overseeing the Environment Group of the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI). Dr. Ramani also serves as Deputy Director of the Center for Healthy and Efficient Mobility (CHEM), a US Department of Transportation funded University Transportation Center.

Dr. Ramani is an expert on sustainable transportation planning, with an emphasis on air quality and energy topics. She has conducted academic research and supported practitioner organizations on air quality issues, especially related to mobile sources. She has worked for a range of state, federal, and local government entities to support their efforts relating to transportation conformity (regional and project-level), to assess impacts of various transportation projects, programs, and policies on air quality, and to address linkages between transportation air quality, sustainable transportation, and health.

She is a member of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Mobile Sources Technical Review Subcommittee, and is serving as a member of the Health Effects Institute's Panel on Heavy Duty Diesel Fleet Turnover. She is a member of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Standing Committee on Transportation Energy Data and Technology. She has also served on several other TRB committees over the years, including as vice-chair of the committee on Sustainable Transportation, and as a member of the Air Quality and Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Committee, the Transportation Energy Committee, and the Committee on Performance Measurement. Dr. Ramani was also a technical contributor to the Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA5).

Dr. Ramani holds an undergraduate degree in Civil Engineering from Anna University, India, an M.S. in Civil (Transportation) Engineering, and a Ph.D. in Urban Planning, both from Texas A&M University. She is a licensed professional engineer in Texas.